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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My 2008 essay that started it all (nice to see here; over on FB the AI clickbait spammy recaps of the story, sometimes with terrible AI photos, always with inaccuracies, circulate).

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 01/09/2025

happy labor day

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

me: I'm going to follow this footnote from vol. 1 of the Selden Society. me, 45 min. later:

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Observing the international 'At Least You Tried' day, by practicing buttoning up my tunic with just three fingers on my left hand.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sad news I've only just heard: Albert Derolez has left us. He was 91, and one of the foremost palaeographers and codicologists in the world.

Albert Derolez last year, holding his latest publication on the Liber Floridus, a Dutch popular science book.

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

As a man, with some interest in the technical development of... things like this, I want to say that this is super cool and that the idea of wire-wrap-thread-screws is the most important thing I have learned about in ages.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

!!! The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections (2025) has already been viewed over 8000 times 😭 thanks for the interest in this book everyone! Free open access copy available here: academic.oup.com/book/59790

Citation and view counter, with 2 citations and 8020 views

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Found academic job opening to teach a course that practically has my name on it. But- it's just one course, probably just one term, in a city two provinces over. On and it was just posted, 10 days before the deadline....

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BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show · 11/06/2026

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A flip of the Futurama title card which now reads 'BLOOD WORK'.

The tagline beneath reads 'Now with 30% more 'FEELING BAD''

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

{{Paperback}} The Social Lives of Medieval Rings Edited by Jitske Jasperse www.arc-humanities.org/978180270350...

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Need to shout into the void about a 6 year stretch without a real job but I can't afford to travel to the void. Social media will have to do.

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

this is what a modern reproduction would look like, if anyone was crazy enough to try and do it... sooo clean!

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK. This is not a drill. MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK!!! www.tallandier.com/livre/marc-b... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

the cover a comic book with the title Marc Bloch l'historien combattant

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

And with one of only 3 medieval depictions of someone practicing swordsmanship against a 'pel', as described in Vegetius

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Len Scales.bsky.social @lenscales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis).

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 27/05/2026

Interview with the vampire 2nd interview with the vampire Just circling back with the vampire Final interview with the vampire Hiring the vampire Probation period with the vampire Everyone’s going in on a card for Geoff, it’s his birthday on Saturday but we’ll do a party on Friday with the Vampire

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

[John Baker busting through the wall like the Kool Aid man] WHERE!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

getting ready for “demanding accurate footnotes is popery” discourse

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

8 February, 1590, Jane Money of Rainham, Kent was fatally wounded by the discharge of a 'snapphawnse' which was resting on a table when a small pet dog jumped onto it and set it off (TNA KB 9/676b m248 - reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/857912/) mutatis mutandis

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Sixteenth-Century English Accident Inquests, 1500-1600 - ReShare

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

READ THIS THREAD!!!!

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I'm going to say my thing regarding this, and then leave it alone. 1/

Screen capture from twitter of Lenka Zdeborova's comment "have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess."

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

Screenshot of Tumblr post by user sunshinemoonrx, reading:

‘Old Welsh lit: Dave punched Steve. This incurred a fine of twelve cattle and a nine-inch rod of silver and is known as one of the Three Mildly Annoying Blows of the Isle of Britain

Old Irish lit: Dave punched Steve so that the top of his skull came out of his chin, and gore flooded the house, and he drove his fists down the street performing his battle-feats so that the corpses were so numerous there was no room for them to fall down. It was like “the fox among the hens” and “the oncoming tide” and “that time Emily had eight drinks when we all know she should stop at six”

Old English lit: Dave, the hard man, the fierce man, the fist-man, gave Steve such a blow the like has not been seen since the feud between the Hylfings and the Wends. Thus it is rightly said that violence only begets more violence, unless of course it is particularly sicknasty. Amen.’

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Just published in Acta Periodica Duellatorum: bop.unibe.ch/apd/article/...

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View of Unsafe Practice and Dangerous Play

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In my happy place today, looking at King's Bench Plea Rolls. This beauty is from Easter term 1662. TNA KB 27/1842

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Jeff de Boer @jeffdeboer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

On the last two chased crowns for the Fat Henry VIII mouse armour project. It’s been an entire week of very careful work to get this far. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #crowns #miniatureart #chasingandrepousse

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Assigning this piece for day 1 of my ancient magic course in the fall!

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Two paperback copies of Metropolitan Science with a detail of a 17thC map of London on the cover.

Shows the top copy of Metropolitan Science being opened, revealing a plan of the Tower of London from 1597.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Was just confronted by the Monty Hall Problem, in the wild (as a test question, not an actual game-show experience).

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Katy Bennett @katybennett.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Pleased to see this out! Really enjoyed reviewing this volume, which makes an important contribution to the theorisation of lordship

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

On 11 June 2026, I'm running an online intro to early modern legal records, part of The National Archives' Practical Archival Skills Training #TNAPAST workshops. More details can be found via the link. For accompanying on-site workshops, see the below thread www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early...

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PAST Early Modern Legal: Online Overview

A one-day online introduction to Early Modern Legal records.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

unmute, this is 100% right

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

welcomed back from my maternity leave by my article appearing in advanced access for HWJ! open access an’ all. it’s about what we learn about the early modern state if we think about arrests as a performance, and draws on four years’ worth of practice-as-research. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I also have a museum joke but you can't have it because of the British Museum Act (1963)

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

💥Every Monument Will Fall UK Paperback Tour Spring 2026 Thur 30 April Birmingham Fri 1 May London Tue 5 May Oxford Wed 6 May Manchester Thurs 7 May Bristol More details/tickets here >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Adding this to the list of "things easier to accomplish than finding an academic job" while looking for an academic job (or any job that uses some of the post-nominals I foolishly collected).

a set of seven art-metal pieces made in the style of military decorations, depicting a bird or raven shape and a two-towered cathedral. All hand made by a grossly under-employed history scholar.

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

While it's likely Hegseth is just using the words for their rhetorical weight (tough words, gurr, war yeah), it is right for anyone listening to this (say, Iran, for one) to understand those words for what they mean in practice, which is a spectacularly dangerous thing for him to say.

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